As Always

I don't know how I forget it every year. Somehow, whether I'm just ignoring it or not, I can never get it through my head that school will rob most of my time. I always start the year with various projects in my mind, and things I'll get done... And then school pushes all of them aside while uttering a boisterous, "Fuck you!". However, regardless of my silly assumptions and large ambition, I have [slowly] been squeezing in things I WANT to do.

For instance: I finished reading "Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating the DC Universe" vol. 1. Basically, Stan Lee wrote a bunch of stories (mainly the origins) with the title DC characters. As much as this is a fanboys wet dream, it amounts to little more than a campy book with a few laughs in it. The art was good, but story wise, it was really what you'd expect from Stan Lee (who's fucking crazy). He really 'marveled' up the characters making them much more frilly and always attacked by radiation and what not... The dialogue for the most part is really lame, and Stan's editorial notes were the worst attempt at humor I've seen since C3po in the prequel trilogy... And yet, despite the fact that they are horribly campy and undeniably lame, I'm still gonna pick up the other two volumes... Here is where I hang my head in shame.

I also finished Shaman King vol. 1 (that's right!). I really liked that series when I was younger, and when I say the first book at Half Price, I had to pick it up. I've never read the series straight through in it's entirety, so I gave myself a push to start (which I've been saying I'd do for some time now). The only down side is that there's 25 volumes... and I'm not too into manga [anymore]. I likely will end up getting the rest of the series... just don't judge me...

I'm almost done reading InterWorld, which has been entertaining thus far, even though it is a book meant for children (Gaiman still uses quite a powerful sense of writing though... He's a literary genius). Nevertheless, it goes by relatively quickly because I am not its target audience...

I still need to finish reading that pesky Resident Evil book series... I've been in the middle of the last book for months now... I just have to power read through the damn thing and get it out of the way.

The next books on my docket? The Absolute Sandman vol. 1 (I'm already half done with it), The Ultimates omnibus (it's a 900 page graphic novel... I fear for myself), and likely either finishing the Chronicles of Narnia series (I think I've only read half of the books, but have owned them all for years) or start the Lord of The Rings series (also have owned for years and never read).

It's pretty crazy... I've never been one for reading...

I also have finally set some plans for myself to FINALLY scan all of my art. Complete works, doodles, sketches... anything I find appealing to the eye (and some I don't) will be scanned and posted online. Expect updates on that soon peoples!!!

And the main thing holding me back from finishing all of this stuff now is school work (and those silly needs to want to eat and sleep)... Work (the one I get paid for) isn't all that bad because I only work on the weekends now. It's slow and I can bring homework to finish there. But despite all of my whining and bitching, school has been going pretty smoothly this semester. I'm actually doing assigned reading, writing notes, staying awake, and minding due dates and schedules. I've still got this paranoid feeling looming over me that there's a crucial piece I'm missing and one day I'm gonna show up to a class that I am completely lost/screwed/behind in... but that has yet to happen. Some courses... I'm actually ahead...

Tales Of A Week On The Fritz

Bloggin'. Yeah.

Hey. Me again. So, because school this semester started on a Wednesday, and the very next week contained a holiday (oh yeah, happy Labor Day), my schedule has been very screwed up. I ended up having to not show up to any classes on Thursday, or Friday. It was nice to have the days off, don't get me wrong, it's just that I need to be able to sink into my schedule... I'm not getting any sink time! And because of Labor Day, I'm losing more sink time! Take for instance tomorrow. Normally, my first class of the day is at noon, but it's a discussion class, and I don't have to show up. So I'm not gonna get a full week until the third week of the semester... Time to adjust...

There may be one good thing coming from my not having to be on campus at noon however. You see, now I don't have to head on over to campus till like 3. This way, I'm able to get the mail before I leave. Why is this important? Because my books are in the mail!!! And we're back to my having beef with Labor Day. NO MAIL ON HOLIDAYS!!! UPS can suckle on my cock...

Plus, after my school books, I ordered The Ultimates Omnibus. Now, I'm more of a DC kinda guy myself, however I was always a fan of collaborations between the Marvel universe characters. Regardless of my preferences, they've got quite an extensive list of characters and mythos. Why not celebrate that with something as massive as The Ultimates?

So, this weekend has also been interesting. Saturday: Work. At work, Becca gave me my first Red Bull ever. It's hard to believe that I've tried so many random energy drinks, but I've never had just plain Red Bull. The verdict? I liked it. It obviously kicked like an energy drink, it wasn't overly carbonated, and it had a nice berry taste. However, I do disagree with Kiwi with the fact that the can, in my opinion, is too small. I'd rather have the full size energy drink. Then again, I just may have a roaring caffeine addiction that will likely sear the bonds of friends, family, and those closest to me... ... ... ... ...After work, Jake and I walked to Steve's, ended up sitting outside of Walgreens talking for quit awhile. Then we all piled into the car, drove to Pick n' Save, bought some soda and bosses and had a little picnic... Yeah, so the 'picnic' was basically me, Coop, Steve, Catherine and Andrew sitting behind my house in the parking lot... It was still entertaining. And then, of course, that douche bag mother fucker who lives in the complex nextdoor started bitching that we were there... At least he didn't call the cops this time...

Sunday: Work. Again. After work Ben came to get Andrew and I. We went back to his place, which contained it's own adventure. In route to Ben's dad's house, we say this vintage VW hippy van driving in front of us. And due to our signature bad judgement, we told Ben to speed up beside him, and blast the radio. What song happened to be play? This. And how were we dancing? Like this. He laughed and surely thought it was epic. Almost as epic as. This. Fun times. After that song, this came on, just adding to the awesomness. When we finally arrived at Ben's Dad's, we immediately busted out Tales of Vesperia and started playing. We're all "Tales" fans and wanted to play through the adventure together. And as much as I know I've got school and work, the allure of an RPG as massive as that, just brings it all back. No matter how many hours I clock [or don't clock] in for, I am, and will always be: a gamer.

Today, didn't really go as I had originally planned. Basically, I ended seeing G.I. Joe and eating at Unos with a bunch of people... It was fun enough, but I always find something to complain about. Well, first off, I ended up sharing some pizza with Joe (who's still not high on my "people I wanna hang out with list"). I was hard core craving some grilled chicken pizza yesterday, so despite the fact that I already ate supper before going with them I was happy. Plus we were able to buy cheaper movie tickets from them, than if we were to go to the theater to pick them up (random...). We were going to either see "Gamer", or "District 9". I was hard core trying to get everyone in agreement for "District 9", which we would have gone to, but Holly doesn't like gore (WHAT ACTION MOVIE DOESN'T HAVE GORE?!?!?! TELL ME?!?!?!). Okay, I'm okay. I'm just glad we didn't see "Gamer" or the new choice of "500 Days of Summer". I really still don't even know what 500 days is about, I just didn't want to see some sappy romantic comedy chick flick with them... it would have made me feel lonely and pretty well left out. We ended up seeing G.I. Joe, which I guess I did wanna see, although I have heard some atrocious reviews of it. It was a fun movie. Mindless action with a few decent lines of dialouge thrown in there to spice things up. The performance by almost every actor and actress in the movie was spotty. It would go from mundane, to a few scenes above average, then to something really... bad... The plot was lame, but in it's defense... It's G.I. Joe. Much like Transformers 2, I will stick up for the lameness... just look at the source material!!! The effects in it were massive. Almost the whole movie was CG, and as much as an artist who's been dabbling in computer animation, I can respect... I don't know, at the same time, it urkes me. The more I see it, the less I can do to stop it... More and more I can see, it's all buisness... You think there was anybody working on this film that really stopped to think "This will be important. What we're doing is unique. It's special. It means somehting". Not likely. The movie was a buisness venture only out to make money with marketing, merchandising and franchising... I guess it's just getting to me more and more lately. Sorry if I'm just coming off as some beatnick hippy college student here, but if you look, you'll see it too...

Anywho, I'm up to late. You know, when you're tired, but still awake and your throat starts to hurt? Yeah, I'm at that point right now. Okay, good night!

Screamin' Like A Bitch

Sorry for not posting as much anymore... I swear I'm still alive (that's up for debate), I just don't update as much as I should.

Life right now... has been muddled. I've got so many things I've been trying to work on and finish before the end of summer that I end up getting nothing done! There's so many artistic projects I need to finish, and so many movies, cds, books, and games I want to get through! And I KNOW that as soon as school starts... those things will disappear (well, books may stay... but not the ones I'd like to read). So yeah... school's quickly approaching, and it seems that new problems have opened up because of this...

Well, not so much for me, but here we go. Andrew, my brother, will NOT be returning to school for reasons simple described to me as: He is not allowed to finish... WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?

Things like that (especially after I had just gotten off of work where I've seemingly put up with enough stupidity and ignorance) really piss me off... People are so fucking dumb, and I'm sick of living in a society with them! God... We in this country have hit such self-centered desperation that we succumb to any savage or criminal activity... FOR LITTLE TO NO FUCKING REASON! I hate people SO much! It's nothing perosnal, I just don't see any reason to hold faith in others because they are so pathetic!

Sorry. I do that from time to time.

In other news, I FINALLY saw Transformers 2 last night. I went with two friends from work: Becca, and Theresa. It was fun going to a movie with them, cuz I've never really done anytihng with coworkers outside of work (not including Becca's going away party). We had to go to Mayfair after work because it was the only theater in the area playing it still. So our movie was at 9:25, and we knew going in ahead of time that we'd get out around midnight. However, having just come back from Africa a little over a week ago, Becca was still jet-lagged, and took a little nap in the middle of the movie. Theresa has already seen the movie, but was still as giddy as a child before, during, and after the movie: "IT'S SOOO ACTION PACKED!". I liked it. Honestly, I liked it. So many times I'd heard that the plot was terrible and the comedy was subpar with a lot of the jokes missing their marks. Personally, I thought it was funnier than the first, but it did still had those things where you're kinda thinking, "This... really shouldn't be here... Kids aren't watching this, stop being so lame!". But you're never really deturred from the movie too much. The plot however does have random, and at times, unnesecary twists and turns (only so many people can "die", then come back to life in the most sappy ways possible). The action was just kick ass, and the graphics were nothing short of amazing. My best advice for the movie, was that they add an etra hour, and then split it in half. That way, they would be able to pace everything a little better, and give you more than a few frames to get to know some 40 odd robots... But it was fun... I enjoyed it.

A... Umm... Yeah, you... a... and then... so... FUCK YOU, I'M DONE!

If Bithches Love You Because You Can Rock, Press 1‏

I’m in a blogsy mood, so let’s go!


Wow… Only one more month of summer before I’m back in schedule Hell. I’m really torn on next semester… In a way, I’m looking forward to it, and yet at the same time, I’m pretty happy with the way things are now, and don’t really want to screw them up (that sentence holds way too many commas to pass as grammatically correct mes thinks). Summer is too cool. Money, friends, waking up at noon… that shit just doesn’t happen during the school year…



On the other hand, I am a bit nervous about my up coming classes. Not really nervous in a bad way, more in an anticipatory way (yep, that's right!). You see, all of my classes this semester are psychology and architecture. None of that switching bullshit. No English, no math, no science, no history, no bullshit!!!

Plus, school this year will... cost me damn near nothing :). All I have to pay for is my books... Don't know how that happened, I just kicked the shit out of financial aid (I swear to God I only wrote TRUE information on the FAFSA application!). So yeah...

But enough of school. It's still summer! And seeing as how it is still summer, that means bad kids like me run around and do stupid shit. Yep, that's right stupid shit. Epic stupid shit. Stupid shit like stealing a construction barrel. None of those small pussy cones (that was Smerz's job), but a fucking traffic barrel! Those things are a lot bigger, and a lot heavier than you think they are. AND WE STOLE ONE! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK SHIT UP!

in other news I've been spending too much money. True, I won't be paying much of anything for school, but still, I'm not one to be willy-nilly with my hard earned cash. I suffer through every guest at work for my paycheck, and I don't take that lightly! And it's not so much that I'm spending my money, it's what I'm spending it on. I have gone out to eat 2 out of the 3 past days. And we won't just stop at one place to eat. Tuesday, we stopped at Arbys, then George Webs. I bought a meal at both places. The next night I ate at Wendys, then, a few hours later, I was back at George webs bringing in the next morning with yet another full meal. Now, I have lost a lot of weight over the past year, but I'll be damned if people don't think of me as still being fat. I love food, don't get me wrong, but when it comes to finally paying for the meal, there's usually some discretion in funds. Take for instance my paying for 3 peoples meals in one day, and expecting them to pay me back (I hate having anyone be indebted to me almost as much as I hate being indebted to other people). Also, I've been the movies an uncharacteristically amount of times within the past week (or maybe it just seems that way). I went to "The Ugly Truth" with Maddie over the weekend at the newly redesigned NorthShore Theater. That place is needlessly ritzy, and crawling with pompous douches. I don;t really like it when things are redesigned to look scores better than what they were before, because what used to be an area filled with normal people, just turns into places for the more well off white kids to go. Which, despite my own Caucasian-ness, pisses me off and makes me want to start a race-related incident. Nevertheless, the movie was an entertaining chick flick featuring a quite sexist version of Gerard Butler (I know what you're thinking, "But we've already seen a sexist movie with Gerard Butler. It was called 300", and you're right. But at least in that movie, his first words weren't "If you're a fat woman, guys don't like you". It was still pretty predictable, but who cares, most movies are nowadays. And then I went to go see Funny People (with no help from Steve) with Ben, Kiwi, Jake and Andrew. Now here's why it probably seems like I've been to more movies than I really have: I paid for 3 people. At the evening price... I don't like to bitch too much about money (I fear that if I do, the Jew jokes will never stop, and I will begin to be haunted by them in my nightmares), but that was a pretty big chunk taken out of my bank account for one movie... Again, the movie was awesome, and really takes some more time of thought after you leave the theater to really realize how clever and smart tit truly was. I was impressed. Especially because Apatow seemed to call in every favor from everyone of his famous friends.

Next piece of news on the docket, I got a photoshop put up on Philly D's website. http://www.phillyd.tv/2009/08/07/jessica-simpson-attracts-creepy-guys/
True, it's probably not all that big of an accomplishment, but for someone like me (with all kinds of crap I put out on the interweb, whether it be hand drawn shit, videos, or even this pile of shit I call a blog, it's nice to have someone else post something of mine) it makes me feel good knowing others may appreciate what I do here.

Also, I downloaded Innerpartysystems free summer mixtape. It's a nice 29 minute long remix compilation they threw together. I really like it and it's hell-a bouncy, but I would like to be able to download the singular remixes by themselves... Just a thought.

Beyond that there's not all that much to report. Have a good night.

I'm Back In School...

Yep... it's true. I had to go back... But here's my latest video outing. Enjoy!